This research paper discusses the problem of social issues, especially the issues of people with intellectual disabilities and how modern mass media supports. Mainly one case study was represented from aspects working with people with ID. This study aimed to examine how the press represents people with intellectual disabilities and how it helps people with this problem. The study was conducted using the method of qualitative content analysis. The material for the report consisted of research. The survey covered the year 2016. The purpose of this qualitative study was to produce an overview of topics and practical recommendations that have been presented for teaching for students with intellectual disabilities. To represent the richness of this research area, the topic was purposely left broad, and the outline was made by focusing on the practical implications of research articles. These recommendations were identified, classified, synthesised, and evaluated. The implications for practice and research are presented based on the findings of this study This research is of significant value, as a contribution to the journalism science policy not only in Kazakhstan but abroad as well. It demonstrates that social issues of the problems of people with ID in modern mass media are widely discussed and are of great importance from the sight of an audience.

difficUlTies in The deVeloPmenT of daTa joUrnalism: KazaKhsTan exPerience The paper describes the essential characteristics of data journalism, the conditions and the process of its forming, the basic features of data journalism in social communication. The article discusses a new trend in journalism as "data journalism", which is based on the processing of open data and their use to create journalistic material. The article describes the main characteristics of data journalism, the conditions and the process of its formation, the main functions of data journalism in social communication and its importance in the media sphere of Kazakhstan. The aim of the study is to identify the specifics of the main trends of date-journalism based on international experience and features of the development of regional experience in the composition of modern media, the definition of its structural characteristics. The subject of the research is the key characteristics of the journalist's tool, called data journalism, which helps to provide the public with important information that could go unnoticed in vast amounts of information about contemporary reality. Internet journalism of metadata defines fundamentally new opportunities for the strategic development of media content characteristics and functions of modern journalism as an element of open public management, the formation of the science of media (media dialogue). The use of the Internet changes the systemic and functional properties of journalism and the media, marking the communicative Internet as a stage in the development of mass media, since the characteristics outlined above reflect the fundamental differences in computer communication and information in the Internet and in the characteristics of media content. Because there is an inevitable development of visual journalism, which is a tool for transmitting information. The author determines that the development of data journalism inevitably entails the development of digital literacy. The author concludes that data journalism, as a new format for presenting analytical media content based on the use of digital computer and Internet databases, has successful prospects in Kazakhstan. In this study, the author used the following methods: the method of content analysis (qualitative) and the descriptive method (in its modern interpretation). The areas of application of the results: journalism, mass communications, digital journalism in close accordance with the use of ICT technologies.